Moonglow, getting a bit leery of such a LARGE squid oggling the ladies slips behind the bar, out of the reach of tentacles. Leaning over to take a look at the suction cup prints on the floor in front of the bar, she mistakenly leans on the red button for the harness that she used to lift and stablize the christmas tree.

After cleaning up from the snowbank and getting some fortification from the barkeep, Sage is just climbing back into the hot tub when the creaking sound of leather and wood catches her attention. Looking across the room she sees the tree slowly lift off of the floor. The tree's weight is enough to keep it from catapulting from the room and through the roof like an Apollo rocket, but it has taken on the unusual feature of dangling from the rafters like a huge ornament itself. As the room full of people watch in amazement, a very large cat on a rafter steps gingerly onto one of the advancing branches. It's weight is enough to slowly tip the tree over and around until it is hanging completely upside down, all of it's ornaments still attached but now in an apparent upside down position. The cat leaps off as the branch nears the floor, and the tree does a graceful but somewhat speedier reversal, in what appears to be a silver fir karate chop as the base moves back to the floor. The swing of the tree butt, like that of a good golf club, catches the squid in what one might (if one has a good imagination) call it's "shoulder," and lobs it out of the Oz door. As the fourth casualty to go flying out a Mudcat Tavern door, Jint Sqid is greatful to have not landed on the snowy side of the building. He reaches three tentacles around his head to feel the sore spot, and they get stuck to his shoulder. A squishy flounce is heard, then a gelatinous small splash, as the creature moves into the ocean to wash off the tree pitch. "Wi9l bee back latr" he gurgles.

Moonglow takes her elbow off of the button and ducks down behind the bar, where she can quietly move past the bartender and out the other side of the bar, reappearing at the other end of the room as if nothing unusual had just happened. The tree once again sinks down to the floor of the tavern.